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the Ontario Funeral Service Association, and
successfully chaired the Meridian Centre Fund
Raising Committee.
OGR is proud to announce that Toland-
Herzig Funeral Homes &Crematory in Do-
ver, OH was awarded the 2017 Golden Rule
Community Service Award. The Golden Rule
Community Service Award, now in its eighth
year, is awarded in recognition of a funer-
al home’s outstanding community service as
demonstrated by involvement benefiting local
organizations or community events.
Toland-Herzig Funeral Homes are being rec-
ognized for its Famous Endings Museum. The
museum helps make the community more
comfortable when visiting the funeral home.
“All funeral homes are designed to honor and
remember people in our families and commu-
nities who have died. We have taken it a step
further in making ours a place where we can
honor and remember those who have used
their God-given talents and strengths to make
our world a better place,”
said John Herzig.
The museum sheds a dif-
ferent light on death, and it
now has hundreds of visitors
who enjoy the funeral home.
Those who have visited have
found the museum to be a
history lesson focusing on
entertainers, sports figures,
religious leaders, civil rights,
astronauts, and inventors
who lived their lives to make
ours better.
“The museum is a fine ex-
ample of a funeral home
contributing to the wellbe-
ing of its surrounding com-
munity. Toland-Herzig has
taken a huge step in educat-
ing the community on fu-
neral service in a very inno-
vative fashion,” said Peter
“Skip” Urban, OGR’s Im-
mediate Past President.
OGR presented the Exem-
plary Service Award to Faul-
mann and Walsh Gold-
en Rule Funeral Home in
Fraser, MI, Graham Funer-
al Home in Chesapeake,
VA, and Cassaday-Turkle
Christian Funeral Home in
Alliance, OH. OGR’s Exem-
plary Service Award recog-
nizes member firms for the
outstanding customer ser-
vice they provided to fami-
lies during their time of loss.
One family whom Faul-
mann and Walsh Golden
Rule Funeral Home helped
shared the following: “The
visitation was a great expe-
rience. When we walked in,
the first thing we saw was a
beautiful tapestry that they
made for us, which we were
not expecting, but it was in-
credible and a great trib-
ute to our dad. The clos-
er we looked at everything,
the more pleased we were.
They incorporated stained
glass that our father made.
They took the pictures that
we uploaded late the night
before and made a nice trib-
ute to his time in the mili-
tary. They included a picture
of a boat that he had restored
in the memorial cards. Af-
ter attending funerals at oth-
er places, I had forgotten
what the “home” part of funeral home re-
ally means. A lot of other places feel more
like a hotel lobby. This place really felt like
they were taking care of us in their home,
and we couldn’t be happier. We hope our
family lives long, but it is clear to all of us
that if anything were to happen, Faulmann
&Walsh Golden Rule Funeral Home is the
place we would want to be.”
One family whom Graham Funeral
Home helped shared the following: “At a
time when I was devastated with the sudden
loss of my mother, Terri at Graham Funeral
Home stepped up and completely became a
godsend. She was a tremendous blessing to
me during the most horrible time of my life.
My mother didn’t want, nor did she like, fu-
nerals, so I didn’t want a stuffy service. I was
able to work with Graham Funeral Home
to have a ceremony at a local arboretum
that included music and items about Mom.
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